“[Investors] include Mr. Moritz; Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn co-founder, venture capitalist and Democratic donor; Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon, investors at the Andreessen Horowitz venture capital firm; Patrick and John Collison, the sibling co-founders of the payments company Stripe; Laurene Powell Jobs, founder of the Emerson Collective; and Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, entrepreneurs turned investors. Andreessen Horowitz is also a backer”
Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Paradigm (founded by former partners of both Sequoia and Coinbase), Solana Ventures, and surprisingly quite a few Facebook alums (Anthony Pompliamo, Chamath Palihapitiya)
Not so mystery: Flannery Associates. "The company’s investors included Laurene Powell Jobs, owner of the Atlantic and widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, and Andreessen Horowitz, a Menlo Park venture capital firm that’s backed companies including Skype and Lyft, among a host of other prominent Silicon Valley figures."
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/solano-new-city-...
Lets look at the investor list: Seed was Baseline Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. A-round was Adam D'Angelo, Jack Dorsey, Chris Sacca, Baseline Ventures, and Benchmark Capital. Then there was Joshua Kushner, and John Lilly.
Wait, who?
Adam D'Angelo - Quora founder. More importantly, "He was chief technology officer of Facebook, and also served as its vice president of engineering" . Top 25 TopCoder participant, respect.
Jack Dorsey - Twitter and Square founder
Joshua Kushner - son of the real estate mogul Charles B. Kushner and brother of Jared Kushner, owner of The New York Observer
We already know one of the founders went to school with Zuck. Cant find citations now, but it was in an online interview.
So it sure helps to be school buddies with Zuck, have ex-Facebook CTO and Zuck friends as investor, and new media (twitter) and old media (kushner famliy) owners as well.
It looks like the founder (according to LinkedIn at least) is also the founder of another ~100-person company, so I'm guessing they had some spare cash to incubate this.
Jonathan Abrams, Entrepreneur, Founders Den
Dave McClure, Founding Partner, 500 Startups
Adeo Ressi, Founding Member, TheFunded.com & Founder Institute
Kindra Tatarsky, VP Silicon Valley, Astia
Cameron Teitelman, Founder & Managing Director of StartX
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